After getting back from my trips to Colombia and Florida I spent the last week either working, recovering from work or trying to find some new species for the year. The weather to end the month around here has overall been very cold (with some near record breaking cold) and less than ideal conditions for migrations. Nonetheless some birds are moving and surprisingly I managed to get to 106 species in the county this month despite being gone for almost two weeks. This total is just one shy of my highest total of 107 I set last year. Today I tried in vain to turn up a Pine Warbler at a bunch of locations (oddly the species has not yet been reported in the county this year so far). I did come across more waterfowl as well as a selection of other early season migrants.
After work on Wednesday morning I made a brief stop at Arcadia (which was quiet) and then to Lake Wallace where the waterfowl show continued. I also checked the duck boxes again (still waiting for eggs in the last box) and spent some time watching multiple banded Black capped Chickadees coming into the feeders.
The earlier part of the last week of the month was covered in an earlier post.
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